From Vocationalism to Enterprise: social and life skills become personal and transferable

Titel:

From Vocationalism to Enterprise: social and life skills become personal and transferable

Auteur:

Ainley, PatCorbett, Jenny

Verschenen in:

British journal of sociology of education

Paginering:

Jaargang 15 (1994) nr. 3 pagina's 365-374

Jaar:

1994

Inhoud:

In this paper we address Cohen's (1985) argument in “Against the New Vocationalism” by broadening the debate into an examination of how generic skills have gained a wider application with the emergence of new technology and structural enonomic change. In order to demonstrate the extent of this development, we include examples from training programmes in social and life skills for young people with learning difficulties and examine the Enterprise in Higher Education Initiative (EHEI), which, among other things, aims to give students personal and transferable skills. In this process, we extend Cohen's analysis to illustrate the diverse ways in which a behaviouristic model of skill transfer has been adopted.